Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo

by Goytisolo, Juan; Bush, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781859845554
• ISBN10: 185984555X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. In some thirty books of fiction, autobiography, essays and journalism, he has turned the Spanish language against what he derides as 'Sunnyspain', flaying the 'Hispanos' while excavating their culture's Moorish and Jewish roots.This, his masterful two-volume autobiography first published in the mid-1980s, broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty. It charts the writer's unique journey from a Barcelona childhood violently disrupted by the Spanish civil war to student rebellion against the Francoist dictatorship and exile as a 'self-banished Spaniard' to Paris in 1956.In Paris, Goytisolo fell in love with Monique Lange, befriended Jean Genet, and discovered his own homosexuality as he supported the struggles for Algerian independence. His passionate, iconoclastic pen spares no one, least of all himself, in this striking portrayal of politics and sexuality in twentieth-century France and Spain.

Author Biography

Peter Bush has translated work by Spanish and Latin American writers. His translation of Juan Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga won the Valle-Inclan Translation Prize. He is the Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia

Table of Contents

Prologue	vii
FORBIDDEN TERRITORY	1	(190)
Part 1	3	(88)
Part 2	91	(100)
REALMS OF STRIFE	191
I The Stealer of Strength	193	(55)
II The Slippers of Empedocles	248	(29)
III The Poet's Territory	277	(22)
IV A Black Cat on the Rue de Bièvre	299	(30)
V Monique	329	(34)
VI The Time Machine	363	(30)
VII All That Glitters Isn't Moorish	393